U.S. President Joe Biden met French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday at the G20 summit in Rome, Italy and addressed Washington's rift with Paris over a U.S. security pact with Britain and Australia, saying what the United States did was "clumsy.”

"I think what happened was, to use an English phrase, what we did was clumsy. It was not done with a lot of grace," Biden said.

On the same day, Macron also questioned Britain's "credibility" and accused it of wanting to change parts of a treaty signed just last year over fishing rights and other topics while speaking to the Financial Times.

Macron said other nations were watching closely as Britain clashed with France and the broader European Union following its departure from the bloc.